When i select my night rule ( and i have selected to have sirens on at night) as soon as i select the night rule the sirens go off for 30 seconds! Why? It bothers me and my neighbors!

Me again… Do you know if I simply select “ARM” on my patio camera (I have the security plan) will the alarm and spotlight automatically go off if, say, someone was to try and break in? Or do I need to have the rules set up as well? I’m guessing I need rules set up as well but wanted to check and see if it’s as simple as “arming” and “disarming” to get the desired actions or if it is a 2-step process. .

So who in their right mind creates a rule to set off there alarm? So you can set off the alarm without checking the camera first? The rules are not even logical. If there is motion detected turn on the ability to send notifications, how does this make sense? What does “Turn on the siren” mean? Does that mean physically turn on the alarm or enable the alarm so it will go off if motion is detected. If you “Turn on motion detection”, what does it do set off the alarm or send a notification or nothing at all because you didn’t “Turn on the siren”? There is no option to send a notification its only “Turn on notification” so in that case an if condition doesn’t make sense. This is just lazy development, I can tell that just from the fact the UI uses checkboxs for mutually exclusive options like Turn siren on and Turn siren off. Industry standard is to use radio buttons.

[image] lrinish: What does “Turn on the siren” mean? That activates the audible siren at the camera. [image] lrinish: If you “Turn on motion detection”, what does it do set off the alarm or send a notification or nothing at all because you didn’t “Turn on the siren”? The “Turn on motion detection” action enables that setting so the camera will start detecting motion once that action fires. That action in itself will not send a notification or sound an alarm. This action works good with scheduled rules where maybe you’d want to enable motion detection at a certain time of night when everyone’s gone to bed. [image] lrinish: There is no option to send a notification its only “Turn on notification” so in that case an if condition doesn’t make sense. Agreed. This is another one that’s good for a scheduled rule where at a certain time you would want that action to fire. If you planned it out, you could not need to use both at once because if your not detecting motion, you won’t have any events to trigger notifications so also have the turn on notifications with the turn in motion detection is redundant. You won’t need either if you use “turn on” or turn off camera action.

Turn on siren is something you have to manually do. There is no way for the siren to sound automatically from a detection or rule. Sorry.

I agree - it’s a worthless, confusing, convoluted bunch of crap - you can only set off the siren manually by going to the app and pushing a button. Just a fun little feature - nothing more [image] Via [image]

What was your latest rule that didn’t work? Can you post a screen shot of it?

You already know the answer to my post - my post is the whole truth as written and I won’t waste any more time arguing or trying to prove it.

Ok, last I see is that you were going to try some recommendations from above. You haven’t posted a copy of a trigger rule, only a short cut rule that would manually turn the siren on. Have you even tried a trigger rule yet?

Siren sounds upon rule selection

Cameras

Omgitstony August 9, 2023, 7:18pm 46

A rule that automates actions in response to device triggers.

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Siren sounds upon rule selection

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